Luxembourg, March 10, 2020. Welcome to today’s issue of Snow Weekly, CEV’s digest of news from the exciting world of Snow Volleyball, set to come out every Tuesday throughout the CEV European Tour season.
SNOWSTORM
• The Tarvisio event on the CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour 2020 that was supposed to take place from March 6 through 8 was cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Read more…
• The Plan de Corones / Kronplatz tournament, which was supposed to be the closing event of the CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour 2020 from April 3 through 5, was also cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Read more…
SNOW KINGS AND QUEENS
• With the cancellation of the two Italian stops, the event in Wagrain, Austria from March 20 through 22 is the only remaining tournament on the European Tour and will prove crucial to the final individual standings and the titles of King of the Snow and Queen of the Snow. See the current ranking...
SNOWFLAKES
• The women’s team of Eva Freiberger, Melanie Wiedenhofer, Nina Wiesmeyr and Stephanie Wiesmeyr and the men’s squad of Arwin Kopschar, Felix Friedl, Maximilian Trummer and Paul Puscariuc became the 2020 Austrian national title-holders at the championship held in Turracher Hoehe over the weekend. Read more...
• The winners of the third German national championship, which took place in Oberstaufen on Saturday and Sunday, are the women’s team of Charlotta Werscheck, Constanze Bieneck, Lena Overlaender and Sarah Overlaender and the men’s team of Benedikt Doranth, Fabian Wagner, Julius Hoefer and Tim Noack. Read more...
SNOWWOMAN
Presenting Snow Volleyball star Lilija Frelik
Lilija Frelik was born on April 6, 1992 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She started playing indoor Volleyball at the age of 10, eventually playing in Lithuania’s first division. She decided to switch to Beach Volleyball, but trained professionally for only one year. The 177-cm-tall athlete discovered Snow Volleyball in 2019 and her first international events were the three stops on the inaugural World Tour in Austria, Italy and Argentina. Since the beginning of the 2020 season, Frelik and her Lithuanian teammates have medalled at all three stops on the European Tour so far – silver at Tsakhkadzor and bronze at Bakuriani and Donovaly. At the event in Slovakia, she was named MVP of the tournament. As a team member of SK Auksma Vilnius, she also earned a silver medal at the EEVZA tournament in Druskininkai, Lithuania in early February. Frelik and her teammate Svetlana Bekis-Sturo, the two players that have been on the Lithuanian squad at all three European Tour stops this year, have collected 250 points each and are the current leaders in the race for the 2020 Queen of the Snow title, with one event to go. They also share the number four position in the CEV European Ranking.
Lilija Frelik in attack during her Snow Volleyball World Tour debut at Wagrain-Kleinarl
Lilija Frelik: “I was born in Vilnius, but our family moved to Salcininkai when I was six years old. It’s a small, but beautiful town with beautiful people. Why I love this town so much is because exactly there I started playing Volleyball, when I was a 10-year-old kid. At the age of 18, I moved back to Vilnius where I studied and played in the first national league, regularly winning medals with the Tauras Sports School. A few years later, I got a proposal to train with the national Beach Volleyball team at the Auksma Beach Volleyball Club, the best in Lithuania. After one year I decided to quit, because of my job, but I still keep going to practice there. In 2019 my teammate Svetlana Bekis-Sturo suggested that we participate in the Snow Volleyball World Tour events in Wagrain and Kronplatz and we did it! Since then Svetlana and I have played at all FIVB and CEV tournaments and I am very happy when I get the podium with my teammates! I was also very excited to receive my first Snow Volleyball MVP award at Donovaly. More than that, I am proud of my team. We all are full-time employees and we don’t have any sponsors, but we all dedicated a lot of time, money, work and training to have all that success. I always liked the winter, but more than everything I love Volleyball, and when it’s two in one, it’s totally amazing! I can’t even describe the feeling when you are on top of the mountains and play Snow Volleyball, but it’s totally insane! That feeling of freedom and the amazing views make my heart melt. I find myself in Snow Volleyball and I would never choose any other option now. My main goal for this year is to qualify for the European Championship in April. After that I hope to get a chance to participate in a World Championship...”
Lilija Frelik and her Lithuanian teammates on the European Tour at Donovaly
SNOW PATH
• The 2020 FIVB Snow Volleyball World Tour is set to get underway this week, with the first stop taking place in Erciyes - Kayseri, Turkey from March 12 through 15. 20 men’s and 14 women’s teams from Europe, Canada and Uruguay have registered to take part. Follow the event here...
• The first national championship of Spain will take place on March 14 and 15 in Boi-Taull. Find out more...
• The national championship of Slovenia will be held on Sunday, March 15, in Krvavec. Find out more...
• A Snow Volleyball tournament will be held on Saturday in Spluegen, Switzerland. Find out more...
SNOW SHOVEL
• The organisers of the Swiss Snow Volleyball Tour have invited foreign teams to compete for the Snow Volley Trophy in Riederalp on April 4. Read more...
SNOW SPARKLES
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